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I Am A Rainbow (2009)

by Dolly Parton(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0399247335 (ISBN13: 9780399247330)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

review 1: Dolly Parton does a really good job at explaining to the children (on their level) how you can feel all sorts of emotions and how they go with the colors of the rainbow. Red for anger, green for jealousy, etc. But in the end she also explains that sometimes we can't control how we feel but we can control how we react and act. A really well done book to help explain to little ones emotions and how we need to be aware of them.
review 2: I would rate this as more a 3.5. It was cute with vibrant illustrations, and it had a nice message, but what knocked it back from being a four was the didactic quality and some of the rhyming. I know that simple rhymes are good for small kids; they can remember them and feel like they are reading the book themselves. However, I... more feel like there are still standards, and I hate forced rhymes. I f you are going to write a rhyming book, I expect them to be clever and well done. If they are forced, I want to put it down. As I said, I can let this slide somewhat in a kid's book, but I still had to take it into account when rating this. Though I must say, I was very pleased to be reading a book by Dolly Parton! less

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